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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1983
Filed:
May. 20, 1981
Eugene G Martin, New Holland, PA (US);
Victor F. Weaver, Inc., New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A poultry leg/back processor wherein backs with legs and thighs attached are manually placed onto a conveyor, second conveyor means of displacing the thigh-legs outwardly from the back, severing means for severing the skin-tissue-tendon at the crotch between the thigh-legs and the back, displacing each thigh-to-back section crotch juncture point by a vertically rotary displacement of each thigh-leg section to an elevated position, and while maintaining the thigh-leg sections in said elevated position relative to the back, moving said back relative to said thigh-leg sections to effect progressive separation of said thigh-leg sections from said back without bone therein.